Sucessful treatment of severe bone pain and acute arthritis in chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia by cytosine arabinoside.

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Abstract
An elderly patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia developed severe bone pains and acute gonarthritis. Intravenously administered cytosine arabinoside brought dramatic relief of the bone pains and led to a rapid subsidence of the arthritis, without achieving haematological remission.